We performed a comparison between Dynatrace and AppDynamics based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Dynatrace is the preferred option. It is praised for its strong AI capabilities, better real-user monitoring and session replay functions, and user-friendly interface. It also offers better visibility and scanning of services and applications, with the ability to analyze traffic.
"AppDynamics is scalable."
"The best features of AppDynamics would be the code application monitoring capabilities."
"AppDynamics' most valuable feature is Business iQ, which is based on analytics."
"AppDynamics provides us with detailed information about the performance of the underlying infrastructure, including servers, databases, and external services."
"The most valuable features of AppDynamics is the scalability and monitoring."
"This solution not only provides answers but also provides sensor data. This allows us to quickly resolve issues that developers may take a long time to solve."
"Technical support is helpful."
"The best feature of AppDynamics is the analytics, which gives us the business insights of the application."
"It is a very good APM tool. There is a lot of thorough scanning of services and applications. It has got great monitoring features."
"Dynatrace is stable."
"Dynatrace has multiple features that I need, but I love that you can analyze traffic, including any bottlenecks. I also find the tool user-friendly and has an easy-to-navigate interface."
"PurePath is one of the best features."
"Smartscape is a valuable feature. They also have a technology named PurePath. PurePath is the distributed tracing data."
"Dynatrace has reduced our total headcount in operations and the mean time to detect and resolve problems. As a result, those challenging offline times are much shorter, if not non-existent, because of this solution."
"The most valuable features are ease of deployment, UI, and collected data. Its deployment is really easy. In just a few hours, you can have a very good outcome, and you can see everything, which is very valuable. It collects a good amount of data."
"The visibility that it provides is most valuable."
"This solution is expensive."
"AppDynamics lacks integration with cloud technology. It probably isn't a good fit for emerging enterprises because it's an on-premise solution, and many newer companies are moving to the cloud. AppDynamics' on-premise technology works reasonably well, but it doesn't have cloud features."
"Regarding Search Guard functionality, there is room for improvement."
"The AppDynamics installation process needs to be more straightforward. Deploying the product is also tricky."
"AppDynamics is new to the cloud and could improve its cloud services, they are following a monolithic monitoring approach."
"Their support should be improved. Clusters and monitoring can also be improved."
"There are many KPIs that are not available in AppDynamics."
"If AppDynamics could do a one-agent function with their actual monitoring effectiveness, it will be the greatest tool."
"The solution is a bit pricey."
"The only challenge is that it's an extensive tool that requires a significant amount of time to learn."
"The con of Dynatrace is that, at times, because it has so much information, it becomes difficult to see the root cause of your problem, and then you have to dig around to find the root cause."
"I believe that something related to IoT devices should be improved."
"They're doing vulnerability assessments of the application stack by using OneAgent. It's a never-ending story if you are trying to be sure your application is also secure."
"An area for improvement would be security. In the next release, I'd like to see more network-centric capabilities - Dynatrace is good at the network level, but I have to leverage other network solutions and integrate with them, but a holistic approach including the network as a one-stop-shop would be great."
"The documentation of Dynatrace needs to be improved. There needs to be a more detailed description and additional examples for background understanding for beginners trying to use it."
"There should be more visibility for network performance monitoring. There should be more metrics for things like 5G and IoT. That would be the main thing because they've moved more to mobile performance rather than fixed networks."
AppDynamics is ranked 2nd in Container Monitoring with 24 reviews while Dynatrace is ranked 1st in Container Monitoring with 21 reviews. AppDynamics is rated 7.8, while Dynatrace is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of AppDynamics writes "Good tracing capabilities and helpful technical support but needs better analytics". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Dynatrace writes "Allows us to monitor application performance, underlying infrastructure, and relationships with Smartscape technology". AppDynamics is most compared with Elastic Observability, Datadog, Splunk Enterprise Security, New Relic and Azure Monitor, whereas Dynatrace is most compared with Datadog, New Relic, Splunk Enterprise Security, Azure Monitor and Elastic Observability. See our AppDynamics vs. Dynatrace report.
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